Agent Context: A developer tool for attaching external project references to AI coding assistants
By
gareth marland
Worth a glance, not a chew.
Summary
Agent Context is a developer tool that allows attaching external projects as clean references inside a workspace without polluting the repository. It makes these references visible to AI coding tools, improving their ability to understand and generate code by providing relevant context from other projects.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledAgent Context lets you attach external projects as clean references inside your workspace without polluting your repo.
It also makes those references visible to AI coding tools, improving how they understand and generate code.
Developers reuse code from other projects, but the workflow is messy, copying files, juggling workspaces, or feeding context to AI tools.
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